EVENTS

"Aberration Optique", Steven Pippin On view until September 11 2017 at the Centre Pompidou, Paris

Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin supports British artist Steven Pippin's first retrospective, "Aberration Optique" on view until September 11 2017, at the Centre Pompidou. Three pieces from the Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin are on loan for this occasion which presents the artist's work since 1982 while offering his perspective on the history of photography.

Three new "Present of our knowledge" workshops were organised to prepare for the third edition of the Editathon Art+Feminisms/Paris in March. The first workshop was held on January 10, led by Tarek Lakhrissi and Kvardek Du to introduce the concept of disidentification as coined by critic and historian José Esteban Muñoz, specialised in queers of color.

The second workshop was held February 1. Led by artist Rébecca Chaillon, it explored the practice of transition in disidentifications.

For the third and final workshop on Februrary 22, artist Paul Maheke guided the participants through another dimension of disidentification, namely ignorance.

This exhibit gathers pieces by artists Oliver Laric, Jumana Manna and Christodoulos Panayiotou with the support of Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette. The exhibition title is borrowed from an expression coined by Michel Foucault; it announces an epistemological erosion and the inevitable alliance between technological innovations and ancient artistic practices.

Anticipations is published in conjunction with Joining Forces with the Unknown to share the evolution of the Fondation's activities. This publication, composed of foundational texts and production booklets, is co-edited with JRP Ringier.

May 13 - August 18 2016

Lafayette Anticipations produced CAKE, a new piece by Yngve Holen, consisting in the equal division of a Porsche Panamera. This sculpture is premiered at Kunsthalle Basel duringthe VERTICALSEAT exhibition from May 13 - August 18 2016.

Between the outstretched arms of a basket crane, Marie-Agnès Gillot and Dimitri Chamblas dance gently in front of Xavier Veilhan's low-tech camera in the 9 rue du Plâtre construction site, still void of its future glass tower. Exclusively filmed on the site’s patio, this eighth episode of the Mutant Stage series sets free from the piece’s original choreography, this time revealing itself through a low definition image and crystal-clear music composed by Jonathan Fitoussi.

Third edition of the Editathon Art+Feminisms Paris, held at the Archives nationales on March 4 and 5 2017

This third edition of the Editathon Art+Feminisms Paris was produced by Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation d'entreprise Galeries Lafayette. It explored the theme of disidentification as coined by José Esteban Muñoz (1967-2013) and featured artist Wu Tsang.

Throughout this exploration of smoke sculptures created by cloud chasers, (LA)HORDE seeks to give shape to a latent moment within the Fondation’s transition.

From October 11 to October 23 , 2016, Faisons de l’inconnu un allié will occupy the former Weber Métaux store, located at 16 rue Debelleyme in the Marais. The works produced—sculptures, installations, films, intermittent or ongoing performances—have been commissioned by Lafayette Anticipations, and each of them demonstrates the Fondation's commitment to its two founding missions: production and anticipation. In line with the institution’s interdisciplinary and social missions, Faisons de l’inconnu un allié brings together international creators from the fields of contemporary art, design and fashion whose work demonstrates a commitment to change, whether social or cultural, tangible or symbolic. This group presentation will be marked a series of talks and performances, and concludes the pre-opening programme begun by the Fondation in autumn 2013, while also heralding the beginning of 2018 opening of its building at 9 rue du Plâtre, renovated by architect Rem Koolhaas’s agency, OMA.